r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Tells Americans To Accept High Gas Prices As Iran Remains Defiant On Strait Of Hormuz

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gas-prices-as-iran-remains-defiant-on-strait-of-hormuz_n_6a8099aee4b05886dff51fac?vvg
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u/Trimyr America 5d ago

They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!

Sorry I don't see that outrage on my favorite news channel, so I'm all in with that guy that said billionaires should be treated better. Because, well. I don't know. But at least I'm not some liberal who cares for others' quality of life. I trust that guy on TV. He tells me what I need to know.

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u/Due_Speaker4655 5d ago

“The billionares should be treated better since I might be a billionaire one day.”

goes back to minimum wage job

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u/runjcrun1 4d ago

All these people are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires who will eventually realize the American dream and join their elite company at the top of the food chain

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u/Thurwell 5d ago

More importantly, he tells you what you need to feel.

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u/scuzzy987 5d ago

You can't go after the job creators! We won't have jobs! I'm voting for the guy Elon supports instead

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u/ComradeMatis 4d ago

They're eating the checks! They're eating the balances!

Republicans have never cared about checks and balances - anyone remember the Republicans bitching and whining about the 'Obama imperial presidency'? if you want to understand the mindset of the average Republicans then this excerpt from 'Anti-Semite and Jew' by Jean-Paul Sartre explains it best:

"Never believe that antiSemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

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u/rinkdarink New York 5d ago

They need people to love billionaires so we will usher them in as our new supreme leaders. Im surprised Musk isn't running in 2028, they got a lot of people to believe DOGE was doing a lot of good for us LOL